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A weight room
By: Kerry Date: September 3, 2016, 1:15 am
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You may not have heard but the Democratic Governor and
Republican legislature in Pennsylvania have had severe problems
trying to put a budget together. Several schools have suffered
drastically as a result with the local school system escaping
for the most part. But our local school board decided to raise
the school tax. That story appeared in the Carlisle Sentinel
HTML http://cumberlink.com/news/local/communities/carlisle/casd-board-approves-new-weight-room-building-could-be-ready/article_d780b6f1-f894-5de1-bd0b-de8806df920d.html<br
/>in June this year.
[quote]Carlisle school board members Thursday adopted a $74
million budget for the 2015-2016 school year that includes a 2.4
percent real estate tax increase.
Board members voted 8-0 to approve the fiscal plan that hikes
the tax from the current 12.9333 mills to 13.2436 mills. Board
member Gerald Eby was absent.
The tax increase means owners of property assessed at $100,000
will be paying about $1,324 in real estate taxes in 2015-2016,
or $31.03 more than the current year.
The district plans to close a projected $3 million deficit by
using $1 million in expense cuts and reductions, $1.125 million
in transfers from savings and $950,000 in new tax revenue. The
cuts include two fewer art teachers at the district middle
schools and one fewer guidance counselor at one of the
buildings.
Teaching staff reductions have been done consistently in the
last four years at the middle and high school level, but not at
the elementary school level, said John Friend, district
superintendent. To save money, the district is outsourcing both
its custodial and substitute teacher services next year.
It is getting more difficult every year for the district to
maintain its programs, said Friend, adding this will continue to
be a problem until there is a resolution by state lawmakers to
reform the pension system and how money is distributed to cyber
charter schools.
In anticipation of rising pension and health insurance costs,
the district set aside $7 million in reserves to “whittle” away
gradually, giving the board and the administration greater
flexibility to sustain programs, said Shawn Farr, director of
finance.
“I applaud the wisdom of this body in adequately building in the
reserves,” school board member Bruce Clash said. He added the
current system of funding public education is unsustainable
without meaningful reform at the state level.
While the tax increase for next year is expected to generate
$950,000 in new revenue, about $800,000 will be going right into
paying for the increase in the district’s share of the pension
contribution, Clash said.[/quote]
The school board at the time also blamed the Governor and
legislature. July came and the tax bills went up and of course
mine went up. I paid it. Imagine my fury when I read this
later in the Sentinel
HTML http://cumberlink.com/news/local/communities/carlisle/casd-board-approves-new-weight-room-building-could-be-ready/article_d780b6f1-f894-5de1-bd0b-de8806df920d.html,<br
/>July 22.
[quote]A weight room building next to the Carlisle High School
stadium could be ready for use by student athletes by early
October.
Carlisle school board members agreed Thursday to amend the
Capital Reserve Budget for 2016-2017 by allocating $425,000
toward the construction of a prefabricated pole building on a
concrete pad behind the home bleachers at Ken Millen Stadium.
Director of Facilities Tom Horton has already been in talks with
contractors about moving forward with site preparation and the
start of construction, Superintendent John Friend said. “We’re
looking for full availability by Oct. 1.”
“It could be sooner,” Friend added, noting how prefab buildings
tend to go up quickly. The contractors involved are on a
consortium list so there is no need for Carlisle school district
to seek bids for the work, Friend said.
The building will be paid for using unexpended bond money left
over from the Crestview Elementary School project and the
projects to expand and renovate the Lamberton and Wilson middle
schools. Project costs are estimated at about $300,000 for
construction $100,000 for weight room equipment and $25,000 for
high density rubberized flooring.
The plan is for the Bison Foundation to raise $50,000 toward the
purchase of equipment. “The foundation is totally supportive,”
said Linda Manning, the school board liaison. She added, once
built, the weight room building could accommodate up to 100
students at a time.
Outfitters have recommended equipment that could be used by male
and female athletes during off-school hours and by physical
education classes during the school day, Friend said. He added
though the P.E. curriculum focuses on cardiovascular fitness, a
unit of study could be introduced on the use of weight room
equipment.[/quote]
So they said they had to raise taxes to meet the pension
requirements, and then suddenly they have more than enough money
that they can afford to spend half a million dollars on a weight
room?
The article doesn't say how much money was left in the
Elementary School project; but it's pretty clear they could have
used that to pay down the pension obligations. They preferred
to raise taxes and then use that unused money on new
construction.
#Post#: 12865--------------------------------------------------
Re: A weight room
By: paralambano Date: September 3, 2016, 10:09 am
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Kerry -
No consultation with trustees on the millage raise and unused
portion?
The article says it's getting more difficult to keep programs
until the pension system and money to charter schools are
resolved at the state level, so they add a program of
weight-training probably needing a professional
weight-trainer(s) on premises during and after school while
things are unresolved?
I wouldn't be happy about it either.
para . . . .
#Post#: 12878--------------------------------------------------
Re: A weight room
By: Kerry Date: September 8, 2016, 6:04 pm
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Update: Sentinel
HTML http://cumberlink.com/news/local/communities/carlisle/plans-for-weight-room-at-carlisle-high-school-to-be/article_685161e5-e727-5710-a940-9f2ed4bc4d73.html:
[quote]The Carlisle Borough Council may vote to approve a final
land development plan submitted by Madden Engineering on behalf
of the Carlisle Area School District for construction of a
weight room and locker rooms on a concrete pad behind the home
bleachers at Ken Millen Stadium, 623 W. Penn St.
According to Bruce Koziar, Carlisle’s planning, zoning and codes
manager, plans call for the facility to be about 4,000 square
feet. The Sentinel reported in July that the new facility could
potentially cost about $300,000 for construction, $100,000 for
weight room equipment and $25,000 for high-density rubberized
flooring.
At Thursday's borough council meeting, the council may also
waive Madden Engineering’s requirement to submit a preliminary
plan ahead of approving the final plans.
The council may also make strides in its East Louther Street
South Parking Lot Resurfacing Project by awarding a $47,800
contract for milling and paving to Kinsley Construction.
“It’s a resurfacing project; redoing the surface of the East
Louther parking lot,” Carlisle Public Works Director Mark
Malarich explained. “It involves some other things as well, some
removal of existing concrete and replacing it with landscaping
materials to address stormwater runoff.”
The Carlisle Borough Council meets the second Thursday of every
month in Carlisle Borough Hall, 53 W. South Street, at 7
p.m.[/quote]They'll approve it.
I have yet to see standing water on East Louther Street after it
rained. What is this fellow talking about? There are other
intersections in town that flood easily after even a brief
downpour if it rains really hard. The other day I went through
a flooded intersection that made my battery light come on. I
was wondering if it was going to short my car out completely;
but the light went off in about half a minute. I get the
feeling maybe the town needs to level out some intersections so
they're not lower than the streets -- and then get flooded.
Maybe clean out some storm drains too. Not sure about that --
when I went through the flooded intersections large quantities
of water were going down the drains but the intersection was
still flooded.
This town is crazy about paving. It's predictable that after
the town paves a street, the electricity or gas companies come
and dig it up again. And then they patch the holes they made
horribly,sometimes making the new pavement worse than it was
before it was paved.
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